Gwendolyn Brooks : The Oracle of Bronzeville | Monument

The Chicago Park District, in partnership with the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, The Poetry Foundation, and Brooks Permissions, presents a memorial to Chicago, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks in Brooks Park. The sculpted bust is accompanied by a porch modeled after the poet's childhood writing spot, a stepping stone path etched with quotations from Annie Allen, and a stone circle.